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The case went cold for nearly 15 years, until March 2022, when police arrested Knutson’s roommate at the time, Nichole Rice, ...
The jury returned a not guilty verdict against Nichole Rice in the 2007 killing of her roommate Anita Knutson in Minot.
Police would later hold a press conference confirming the death of Anita Knutson, an 18-year-old student at Minot State. Investigators confirmed her death was being treated as a homicide ...
The Sand Law Firm, which successfully defended Nichole Rice on murder charges and generated controversy over the way its ...
Video celebration of the verdict received criticism on social media for going against courtroom decorum, especially with ...
The Minot woman charged with killing her roommate back in 2007 in Minot has been found not guilty by a jury in Grand Forks County District Court. The jury began deliberating Tuesday afternoon and ...
The jury in the Grand Forks trial deliberated for more than five hours before finding Nichole Rice not guilty in the death of Anita Knutson, the Minot Daily News reported. As the court clerk read ...
Rice was on trial in the stabbing death of her roommate Anita Knutson, 18, in Minot in 2007. Rice, now 37, was arrested in 2022 and the trial was moved to Grand Forks because of pretrial publicity.
According to People, 18-year-old college student Anita Knutson was found in her bed with two stab wounds in her chest in her off-campus apartment near Minot State University on June 3, 2007.
GRAND FORKS — A Grand Forks County jury will decide the fate of Nichole Rice in one of North Dakota’s most high-profile murder cases — the 2007 stabbing death of Minot State student Anita ...